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ROXY HASTINGS. ey lighted up her pale face with a glow which counterfeited for the moment the roseate hue of health. “You have another name.” “Hastings.” ‘Then, Miss Hastings, allow me to ask by what misfor- a you, who have the language and deportment of a ady——” ‘‘No, do not ask me anything about myself, at least not now,” said the girl, blushing, “for I hear some one moving . up stairs. I want to finish what I began to say to you.” “Go on, then.” ‘To not sell all your right in the land at any price. Re- serve a half or quarter interest, and then you will get the benefit of the capital which is laid out upon it, and may realize many thousands from it every year. Do not look so astonished at me, sir. These are not my ideas, but they are what I hear every day.” Again Charley thanked his fair friend, and assuring her that he would profit by her advice, he hastened to quit her presence before there were spectators to their interview. He remained to breakfast with the Rooke family, but he declined further negotiations with the discomfited Sharp and his friend, who continued to advance in their offers, and who wondered much as to the change in his views. At Captain Smith’s, whither he repaired early in the forenoon, he found a different class of men, and among them the capitalist of whom Miss Hastings had spoken— a Mr. Ogilvie, of New York, whose frank, straightforward mode of dealing was in marked contrast with that low cunning and fraud of which he had so nearly been the victim. “You've got a rich tract there, young man, as I presume you know,” he said. “I’ve been all over it, and I was going back to New York to look up the owner of it. lam glad to meet you.” Charley was charmed ; but he was still on his guard, for this might be only the semblance of candor. It proved otherwise. He speedily concluded a bargain with this gentleman, by which he was to receive ten thousand dollars down on ex- ecuting his deed for an undivided half of the property, and. the joint partners were then to form a company for work- ing the land, which Mr. Ogilvie told him could not fail to insure them both a fortune. A fortune! Had he not made it already? Lee felt like 4 millionaire when the capitalist—who, business like, cS Go cComicboo